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by calinet6 12y ago
Given the needs of most applications (which don't press either database's capabilities whatsoever), that really is probably the main reason.
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by calinet6 12y ago
Perhaps it has something to do with having worked in the pg codebase for a time. It's clean as a whistle, I respect that a lot. But that's certainly not the whole picture.
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by calinet6 12y ago
That makes sense, thanks. I guess as long as you have a reasonably optimized relational database of a given class, you're going to be about on the same order of magnitude of performance.
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by calinet6 12y ago
Or better, more solid relational options like Postgres... Honestly, is there any reason to use MySQL over Postgres at this point? Or is it sort of six of one half a dozen of the other as long as the data model is decent?
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by calinet6 12y ago
This is great. It's just perfect. The service purposefully limited to naturally content-light context-light 180-character quips—whose intent is to broadcast and be broadcasted to unfiltered—achieves its destiny. The result is natural a
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by calinet6 12y ago
Are dead plants better than no plants at all? That's our problem... but it is really nice to have (mostly living) plants around, have to admit.
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by calinet6 12y ago
When one tells the truth in a manner that's full of integrity, it's rarely bad.
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by calinet6 12y ago
Wow. He deserves a really good vacation, and I'm really curious to see what he does next. AnandTech has been an amazing resource, and fostered a lifelong fascination that turned into a career. Sure, there were other sites, but Anand hi
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by calinet6 12y ago
I have no idea, really. My hunch is that mathematics is more than universal; truths hold regardless of which medium of calculation is used to conclude them. In any case, our conclusions about our own universe at least hold within our own un
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by calinet6 12y ago
There's really not that much to understand, and the details aren't that important unless you're living them. The question boils down to this: are we one of an infinite number of universes that popped into existence that just
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by calinet6 12y ago
You're thinking of parallel or alternate universes, which is based on the "many worlds" interpretation of quantum mechanics, where the universe "forks" at every quantum possibility into an infinite number of univers
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by calinet6 12y ago
It "kills it" because it's only really appealing if the universe we're in appears extremely unlikely, like it's the "just right" goldilocks balance of cosmic variables that we can't explain, that happ
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by calinet6 12y ago
I do care, it's why I made the comment I did in earnest. The lack of a fully formed argument was simply because of my lack of time and typing on a phone. Point taken: I will try to be more kind even to strangers on the internet. You ne
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by calinet6 12y ago
Sometimes the best individuals make the worst teams. Almost correlated, actually: those with the best resumes tend to think that products are made by individuals.
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by calinet6 12y ago
Because I'm an asshole? What do you want me to say? I have no illusions about the integrity of my rhetoric—it has none. It was a statement made without much thought based on my experience. It does not require or request your approval.
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by calinet6 12y ago
Told you it was a cop-out argument. I'm just telling you what my experience was when encountering this topic, and then my conclusion after revisiting it many times over the course of a dozen years or so.
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by calinet6 12y ago
I know that this is a cop out argument, but trust me, we all went through this phase. Eventually you'll see static typing as another tool in the box, that is only helpful and doesn't get in your way.
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by calinet6 12y ago
I would love a fashion brand such as Patagonia is for the outdoor style... Very high quality, consistent, and they even still carry some of their styles from the 70's and 80's nearly unchanged. Something that hasn't been said
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by calinet6 12y ago
The other thing I think people don't often understand (or appreciate, or respect) is that the richter scale is logarithmic. A 7.0 isn't just a little bit worse than a 6.0. It's 10 times worse. And an 8.0 is 100 times more pow
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by calinet6 12y ago
It was indeed a very rough analogy. Not saying we can equate them by any means. Great to learn more about quantum computing though, thank you for the clarification and the link!
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by calinet6 12y ago
Wrong perspective. "We" had nothing to do with it. The lottery analogy implies a selector, but it's only a model: in reality, this is an autonomous, unselecting, random distribution, and "we" just happen to be in it
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by calinet6 12y ago
Yes. Observer in my post above specifically refers to a sentient being; observer in quantum computing specifically does not. However given the context, the two are (very) roughly similar. One could (again, very roughly) think of the univers
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by calinet6 12y ago
I was just thinking how similar the anthropic principle is to the general concept behind quantum computing (to the best of my limited knowledge: create a quantum superposition of states and the one which solves the problem is the solution).
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by calinet6 12y ago
It's actually not that at all. This image tells it all: https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/953/1*QXypiHUwjJZr... What he was saying is, if there was just 1 gram per cubic cm less mass in the original u
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by calinet6 12y ago
It can be eliminated, and it's extremely simple to lay out exactly how to do so. Getting there is not so simple, but the analysis is. This type of office politics are a direct result of a specific set of ingrained beliefs about people,
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by calinet6 12y ago
You don't reward luck because the negative effects of individual bonuses on the entire workforce cause more harm. You recognize the truth: that your whole team is responsible for working together to solve the problems of the company, w
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by calinet6 12y ago
OT, but it doesn't much matter to me, as I've dissociated from the service and uninstalled all apps after the forced Swarm switchover. The dual-app UX is a mind-bendingly bad idea.
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by calinet6 12y ago
Absolutely. In attempting to solve the problem of the influence of testing, they've also taken a huge step toward improving quality. This applies to all of us. http://blog.deming.org/2013/02/the-idea-of-perfor
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by calinet6 12y ago
This is absolutely correct and insightful. Glad to see it on the BBC. Now here's a scary question: when you want to give someone a bonus because of their successful performance over the last 6 months, how likely is it that their string
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by calinet6 12y ago
I think this vicious cycle is one of the biggest human bugs around. It's a malfunctioning recursive negative feedback loop.

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